[ANNOUNCEMENT] Cygwin/XFree86 DocBook-based FAQ draft

[Alexander Gottwald]

On Tue, 22 May 2001, Harold Hunt wrote:

> Alexander,
> 
> > http://www-usercgi.tu-chemnitz.de/~goal/xfree/xmodmap.de.bz2
> > http://www-usercgi.tu-chemnitz.de/~goal/xfree/xmodmap.fi.bz2
> > http://www-usercgi.tu-chemnitz.de/~goal/xfree/xmodmap.fr.bz2
> > untested (from redhat distribution)
> > http://www-usercgi.tu-chemnitz.de/~goal/xfree/xmodmap.tar.gz
> 
> I was wondering if there was a general answer to the question of "where can
> I get a modmap for language foo?".  For example, do the modmaps from RedHat
> almost always work now?  Is there a way to generate a modmap automatically?
> Something along those lines is what I'd like to put in the answer; of
> course, a link to an archive of tested modmaps would be fine, but I'd like
> to have some sort of directions for those that cannot find a tested modmap.
- generate one with xkeycaps ( http://www.jwz.org/xkeycaps )
	don't know if it compiles for cygwin

- Linux/Unix distributions 
	man xkeycaps tells that those from HP and SuSE are broken

- maybe samples from X11 or XFree
	are there some?

bye
	ago
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